Romance is a lot like baseball. It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.
Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men.
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Classical in form, warm, effortless and cool.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Aug 20266/10
I did rather like "Annie" (Susan Sarandon) taking a distinctly more actively benevolent view of supporting her local baseball team. Each season, she selects one of the lads from the team to be her friend-with-benefits for the season - all in the hope that this will help stop them languishing at the bottom of the league tables. She has some provenance with this process as usually the lucky player goes on to play unexpectedly well so success might loom for either new boy "Ebby" (Tim Robbins) who has great speed with his pitching but his aim leaves a lot to be desired or for "Crash" (Kevin Costner) who is much older, wiser, and purposed with getting "Ebby" to actually direct his skills more accurately. Now the hormonally active lad has no problems being her choice for extra-curricular entertainment but the older gent feels that wouldn't be appropriate and that sex ought not to be integrated in quite this way to motivate the players. As the season progresses, all three have to come to terms with maturity, success and failure as we roll along rather too predictably but still quite amiably to it's conclusion. The enthusiastic Sarandon steals the scenes here for me, and likewise Robbins d
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Cast
- Kevin CostnerCrash Davis
- Susan SarandonAnnie Savoy
- Tim RobbinsEbby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh
- Trey WilsonSkip
- Robert WuhlLarry
- William O'LearyJimmy
- David NeidorfBobby
- Danny GansDeke
- Tom SilardiTony
- Jenny RobertsonMillie
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- Ron SheltonDirector
- Ron SheltonWriter
- Bobby ByrneDirector of Photography
- Michael ConvertinoOriginal Music Composer
- Robert LeightonEditor
- Adam WeissEditor
- Mark BurgProducer
- Thom MountProducer
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